Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 51, Number 173, Decatur, Adams County, 24 July 1953 — Page 1

Vol. Li. No, 173.

U.N. Rushing Plans To Okay Korean Truce Rush Preparations For Early Session Os U.N. Assembly UNITED NATION’S. N. Y. UP — United Nations officials rushed preparations today for a general assembly session to approve the expected Korean armistice and to make plans for the Par, Eastern political conference scheduled to follow It. ' General assembly president Lesnight from Canada for a weekend ter B. Pearson arrived Thursday of conferences with secretary general Dag Hammarskjold and other U.N. officials. The two top U. -N. officials were scheduled to meet . leading delegates from a dozen nations, including, the United States. Russia, Br|tain, France and India, at a luncheon Jsn Pearson's honor ~ hero today, Hammarskjold flew to Ottawa last month to open talks with Pearson on plans for the post-armistice assembly session. Observers believed the assemj hly would be called back from its recess, which started April 23. within three weeks of the signing of an armistice agreement. Tb* 60-nation group is expected oniy to "take note” of the truce •fr the unified command has notified the security council that it has been signed. Then the assembly will turn its attention to the Far Eastern political conference scheduled to follow within 90 days of the signing of •the armistice. Observers' considered it unlikely that the assembly would attempt to fix the agenda for the conference. It was expected only to set the actual date, select the site, and perhaps decide what countries will participate. The difficulty of deciding the conference agenda was apparent from the wide range of speculation upon issues which the polificst con- * clave might discuss. These included: 1. A formal peace settlement for Korea. The armistice merely ended the fighting and details must be worked out for permanent arrangements between the belligerents, including the withdrawal of foreign troops and installations—both of the Chinese Communists and the U.N. 2. Plans for the unification and rehabilitation of Korea. The U. N. is pledged to unification of the war torn peninsula by political means and already has in operation a program of rehabilitation of the war damage. • 3. The issue of Chinese representation in the U.N., which entails the recognition of the Communists as the official regime of China and the withdrawal of such recognition from Chiang Kai-Shek’s Na- - (T*rw To Po<* Stx» Speaking Contest At 4-H Club Show Winners Compete At Indiana State Fair A 4-H public speaking contest is to be a 1953 addition to the annual 4-H club .show. The event will take place on Wednesday afternoon, Aug. 5. at 2 p.m. from the fair platform. A boy and a girl winner will be selected to represent Adams county in the state 4-H public speaking program at the state fair. Requirements are as follows:' 1. The speech must be of general interest and be concerned with one of the following/opics: agriculture; borne economics: 4-H club work; health and safety; natural resources; citizenship. 2. The speech must be Original with the participant. , 3. The speech must be 5-7 minutes long. 4. Brief notes may be used, if desired, but the speech must not be read. 5. Participants must be bona fide * club members who are currently enrolled In a 4-H club. They must have passed their 14th birthday and must not have passed their 21st birthday on January 1, 1953, 8. Participants must have completed at least three years of 4-H club work, including the current year. . 4-H leaders have applications that are to be turned in to the extension office. ■ ’■ » INDIANA WEATHER Fair and eool tonight. Saturday fair, warmer north and central portions, tow tonight 53-59 north; 59-65 south. High Saturday 85-90.

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Smith Urges Restoration Os Cuts In Funds Urges Senators To Restore Cuts For “ Overseas Program By UNITED PRESS A senate appropriations hearing today generated large amounts of mystery the *‘tpp secret" kind, heat as in temper, and light, the kleig variety. Undersecretary bf state Walter Bedell Smith introduced the mysin asking the committee to restore cuts made by the house in voting $60,000,000 for overseas information programs- President Eisenhower had asked $87,600,000. It is “of grave importance,” Smith told the ! senators, that enough money be appropriated for “project pigeon.” a "top secret" operation of the national security council. He said the project involves “some radio construction funds.** He refused to give any further details in public. The heat was generated by friction between Sen. Joseph R. McCarthy. R-Wis., and a couple of Democratic senators and by clashes between him and Smith. At one point Smith said no money had been spent on - books by Communist authors soy overseas libraries since 11947 J Snapped McCarthy. “You are in error.” 5 The light; shed by big lamps set up for newsreel hnd \ television cameras, brought Un inquiry from 'Sens. Allen J. Ellendpr, D-La., aftd A. Willis Robertson. D-Va., as to why the hearing had been moved from the regular committee room, a tiny, cramped cubicle, into the big senate- caucus room. Acting chairman i Homer Ferguson, R-Mlch., said he didn’t know who was responsible. Member McCarthy said he was. Ellender wanted to know if the hearing was “to be a show” and McCarthy retorted he didn’t think “the old Truman administration should be allowed to cover up” by conducting the hearings in a “baik room.” Robertson commented that the Republican leadership had said congressional plans to adjourn July 3! hinged oil whether the committee finished its hearings today. McCarthy said, however, it would take him a long time to ask all the questions he ; has in mind. Practically lost in the general discussion was a statement by Smith about “book burning.” He said nobody has authority to burn 1 CTwri T* «tx> t J : j. ; I f | . , G.E. Vacations To Start This Evening The Decatur General Electric plant will close this evening for a two weak vacation period. Plant operation* will be resumed August 10. Approximately 900 employes will be on vacation.

PMA Committee Members) Elected Will Select County Committee July 31 Winfred L. Gerke. chairman of the Adams county PMA commitannounces the results of the election of community committeemen for 1954 jb follows; *Blue CreekWdWnship — -WHiatrman. Austin it. Merriman; vicechairman, Harry D. Raudenbush; regular membeir. Claude W. Marckel; first alternate, Maurice E. Miller; second alternate, Frank Dellinger; delegate, Harry D. Raudenbush, and alternate delegate. Austin R. Merriman. French township—Chairman, Elmer J. Isch; vice-chairman, George Ringger; regular member, Lewellyn Lehman; firsts, alternate, Henry Schaffter; second alternate. Harold E. Elmer J. Isch, arfd alternate delegate. Henry Schaffter. Hartford township — Chairman. Robert C. Augfcbhrger; vice-chair-man. Harvey L. Garboden; regular member. Charles Weikel; first alternate, Stahly; second alternate. Leonard M. Wagley; delegate, Harvey L. Garboden. and alternate delegate, Leonard M. Wagley. Jefferson township— Chairman. Arlie Foremaq; vice-chairman, Holman L. Egty; regular member, Andy Myers; first alternate, Kenneth Beer; sedoild alternate, Orison Stolz; delegate, Andy Myers, and alternate delegate, Ralph H. Bollenbacher. Kirkland township — Chairman, Loyd L. Byerly; vice-chajrman Daniel C. Lantz; regular member, Robert Ehrmap; first/ alternate, Frederick Kaehr; second alternate, xjloward L. delegate, Loyd L Byerly, and alternate delegate, Robert Ehrman. Monroe township — Chairman, Sylvan Sprunger; vice-chairman. Loris Rich; regular member, Dan Habegger; first alternate, Franklin P. Steury; second alternate, Harry W. Lehman; delegate Franklin P. St.qury, and alternate delegate. Sylvan Sprunger. Preble township — Chairman. Robert 7. Werling; vice-chairman, Glen E. Girod; regular member, Loren Kruetzmdn; first Alternate, HarOld Scherry; second alternate, Walter Hoffmaqi; delegate, Robert J. Werling, and alternate delegate, Glen E. Girod. : Root township—Chairman, Hugo J. Boer ger; vice-chairman, Fred D. Kunkel; regular member, Omer Merrimhn* first alternate. Chauncey A.“ Sheets; second alternate, Wm. A. Selking; delegate, Fred D. Kunkel; and alternate delegate, Hugo J. Boerger, St. Mary’s township—Chairman. Harvey J. Sells; 1 vice-chairman, Benoit P. Johnson; regular member, Harvey Shell; first alternate, Edward Koos; second alternate, Jay W. Chapman; delegate, Benoit P, Johnson, and., alternate delegate, Edward Koos. Union | township — Chairman, Herman Geimer; viewchairman. Victor Bleeke; regular member, Oscar H r Fuelling; first alternate, Simon A. Lehrman;* second alter(Tara To Page Foar)

Decatur, Indiana, Friday, July 24; 1953

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Ike Requests , Defense Funds To Aid Korea Asks Fund To Aid In Rehabilitation After Armistice WASHINGTON, UP y - President Eisenhower today asked that 9200.OOthOOO of defense funds be used to start post-armistice rehabilitation in South Korea. Mr. Elsenhower made the request to Republican congressional leaders at a 90-minute White House breakfast. They said the plan received "very strong approval." hActing senate Republican leader William F. Knowland and house speaker Joseph W. Martin Jr. expressed confidence a majority of both houses in congress will approve,,, i I Knowland said the 1200.000.000 would be the first installment of an emergency fund .to start rehabilitation and would not necessarily be all that congress would provide for South Korea in the current fiscal year. The money, Knowland said, would come out of savings ing from the end of combat in Korea. He said it was estimated that actual fighting—besides pay and maintenance of U. S. troops costs about >1,200,000,000 a year. , Mr. Eisenhower* did not give his congressional leaders any estimates on total rehabilitation costs for Korea. Knowland said the subject Mtill is under study and the $200,000,000 would allow a start in the program of rebuilding the wardestroyed bridges and buildings and of otherwise helping the South Koreans. The rehabilitation work would start promptly aftet signing of a truce. Martin said) it was hoped the truce would come "soon." The President’s request was made as Syngmani Rhee voiced new opposition to the plans for a truce. Mr. Eisenhower’s action may soften Rhee’s opposition. Secretary of state John Foster Dulles has disclosed that ’the 1 United States promised Rhee. to start immediately after a truce a four to five-year rehabilitation program involving "heavy expenditures.” The first phase of the program will be directed at “stabilizing” 'Twiw To Paw* six) Induction Call For Four On August 10 Clerk On Vacation Beginning Monday James K. Staley, chairman of thte Adams county selective service board, announced today that the clerk of the board will be on vacation from Monday, July 27, until Saturday, Aug. 8. The draft board office, located at 169 North Second street, will be open during that time only for registrants who have reached their 18th birthday. Earl B. Adams, the appeal agent, will have charge of registrations only. Staley also announced that a eall has been received for fopr young men to report Monday, Aug. 10, for active induction into thej nation’s armed forces. L. i' L ■ Announcement was also made that a number of 1-0 registrants hate reported for civilian work at the following hospitals: Central state hospital, Indianapolis; Dr. Norman Beatty memorial hospital, Westville; Logansport slate hospital, Logansport; Irene Byron hospital, Fort Wayne, and St. Elizabeth hospital, Lafayette. One registrant will serve a twoyear period of service in Europe, where he will be engaged in construction and rehabilitation work.

Drop In Draft Calls After Korean Truce U " I Temporary Drop To End Next Summer . WASHINGTON UjP — Draft eligible youths cpn look forward to a slight drop in draft calls after a Korean truce but only temporarily. By next July, the calls will soar again. Then, in the opinion of manpower experts, will come the real draft manpower squeeze. Military, congressional and draft leaders have been issuing conflicting statements prithin- the past week about how 3 a truce would affect the draft. Defense secretary Charles E. Wilson said draft calls would fall. Draft director Lewis B. Hershey countered that if anything calls would rise. And chairman Dewey Short of the hoiise armedservices committee announced Thursday that draft calls would remain about the same. ) . In an attempt to clarify the situation, assistant defense secretary John A. Hannah; the man in change of defense manpower, gave th-is gundown of what will happen to the draft following a oKrean truce: About three months after an ar-( mistice is signed, monthly draft calls will drop to 19,000 from the MHIaiHURb-rate of 23.00,0 and continue at the lower level until next July. Beginning next July, however, calls will have to jump to about 45,000 a month to replace the large humber of draftees due to be released ip the following 12 months. The cut in dtaft calls will result from the;graduaf elimination of the "manpower pipeline” — or the 50,000 men the army has had to keep .in transit from"training camps to the Far East to replace combat Veterans in Korea. \ , The cutback in army strength, to be achieved over a 10-month /Tam To P«we Ktehtl GE European Tour To Start Saturday Five From Decatur On Airplane Trip Five Decatur krotnen, one from Berne and a seventh from Monroeville, will take to the sky Saturday morning from Baer Field in TWA planes on the first lap of a European tour, which will begin in Shannon, Ireland and then a hop to London. | ! j Members of the General Electric Elex club tour of foreign countries, the Decatur women are: the Misses Dorothy Schnepf,J Rosemary Miller and Eloise Noll, Mrs. Gerald Schlickman and Mrs. Walter J. Bockman. The latter is office manager at the Citizens Telephone company. , ! ! From Berne, | the TWA announced, Barbara Burry will join the. flight and Monroeville will be represented by Helen Hoffman. I Prior to taking off, a gala breakfast will- be served the tourists at Baer Field by a Fort Wayne department store. The first plane is scheduled to depart at[9:3o a.m. Arriving at Idelwild Airport, New York, planes will take to the sky for the ocean crossing at 3:30 Saturday afternoon. Dinner and Sunday morning breakfast will be aloft. •A; short stop will be made in Shannpn and the three Twa planes carrying the tourists are scheduled to arrive in London Sunday afternoon. Approximately 141 will be aboard the three planes and tour England, Holland, Germany, Switzerland, Italy and France. Departure for homjs after 22 days of touring yill be made from Paris on August 14, with arrival in New York the following day. Irene Meyers, director of women’s activities for the G. E. will accompany the tour. An audience with Pope Pius,. XII, and U. S. Ambassador Clare Booth Luce, a reception by the mayor of Paris and possibly a meeting with prime minister Winston Churchill are among the highlights of the tour.

Reds Hurl Two New Assaults On West Front U.Nj Troops Fight Off Attacks With Bayonets, Rifles J SEOUL. Korea, Saturday UP— Communist trbops, attacking behind a two-shells-a-second barrage, hurled ' new “useless” assaults at Allied western front positions early today. I U. N. troops, dug in op Outpost Esther and two other outposts northeast of i Panmunjom, fought the 1.5(H) Reds with bayonets and rifle butts. ’ ‘ Second Lt. • William H. Bates, Portland. Me., commander of defenders on Esther, radioed headquarters: ’ • t. , - “Holding. ( Doing fine. Will continue to hqld as long as ammo holds." yn . t * One officer Said, “We still hold about 50 >'■ percent of Outpost. Esther." Five minutes after midnight, 'Bates called for Allied artillery to “box” the three sides of his outpost. He said be could see Chinese moving up tn attack the hill from the rear. It appeared the outpost was almost completely cut off. Bates, 24. : was nicknamed “the mayor of Esther” by his troops. He was formerly a technical sergeant and received a commission in August, 1952. He has been in- Korea exaictly 30 days. A beautiful moon silhouetted the hills of the battleline as the two ptiinese battalions jumped off at 10 p. m. Friday in their attacks on Esther and the other outposts. The Reds hurled 200 Russiantype KatuirUa rockets into Outpost Esther in addition to the thunderous artillery and mortar barrage, turning the battleground into a smoking, boiling inferno. Allied artillery replied with a heavy of its own. An early morning report said the Chinese had. reached the crests of both smaller outposts and hand-to-hand fighting was in progress. Artillery, of the 3rd U. S. divi--81(711 pounded the Red rear area and claimed destruction of at least one Chinese company—about 160 men—before it ever reached the central front lines. Tho positions under attack will be the property of neither side if an armistice is signed. Miss Mary A. Ginley Dies This Morning Funeral Services Monday Morning Miss Mary Agnes Ginley, 76, a resident of Decatur most of her life, died at 9:15 o’clock this morning at her home, 709 Walnut street,' following an illness of 10 days of complications. She was born in Holyoke, Mass.. Aug. 11, 1876.; ai daughter of Terence and Mary Ginley, but -had lived in Decatur most of her life. , Miss Ginley was a member of St. Mary’s Catholic church and the Rosary society. « SM'is survived by two sisters, Mrs. Robert Green and Miss Anna Ginlejr, both at hom«. Two brothers. and one sister preceded her in death. »■ ;; Funeral services will <be con- ) ducted at 9 a. m. Monday at St. Mary’s Catholic church, the Very , Rev. Msgr. J, J. Seimetz officiating. Burial will be in the Catho-’ ( lie cemeterpr. The body was re- ; moved to the Gillig & Doan fu- ( neral home, whore friends may 1 call after 7 o'clock Saturday evening. The Rosary society will , meet at the funeral home at 8 , p, m. 11.

Indiana Bell Phone Crippled By Strike First Major Strike In State History ' IN'DRAN>A'PO>LI-S UP —.lndiana Bell Telephone company service, kas crippled by uie first widespread strike in its history today as 45 of 82 exchanges were hit and ’ indications Were the remainder would be affected, by nightfall). About 5,500 of the state’s largest phone utility’s . 6,800 workers remained at home or paced picket lines in protest over what they called company l“stalling” kt negotiating a new contract. ) | The walkout hit all the large exchanges, including the capital city’s i,BOO-man office, and spread rapidly to the smaller offices. Spokesmen for the CIO Communications Workers of America predicted the strike w’ould be "in full bloom" soon, possibly by tonight. Supervisory personnel manned switchboards in smaller exchanges and long distance lines in large offices on an etp.ergency basis I-ocal calls in cities with dial service was unaffected. 'Meanwhile, negotiators indicated ■willingness to continue bargaining sessions with federal mediator Arthur Pierson, but\ no meetings were scheduled. Mrs. Mae Mamn. Indiana CWA director, charged Bell officials shoved no signs of'"trylnff -to reach an agreement" at | Thursday’s session, which utility officials called a "probing She said workers would be "forced to remain, out" until a solution to presently negotiations had been reached. ) "This is our first strike in Indiana," she said, "and Indiana Bell has never been exposed.” She said the State Public! Service Commission last year granted the utility a $7,000,(HM) rate increase which enabled Indiana Bell, to show a 7.8 percent return on its investment—the second highest in the "Yet they’re offering us an average wage increase of only 4.9 cents per hour. Something don’t add up," she said: Mrs. Mann said the union was asking a “package” increase, similar to that signed by other large CIO unions. ! Polio Incidence Is ■ ’ Up By 33 Per Cent Increase Os Third Reported Last Week By UNITED PRESS < . The polio rate has gone up. It rose 33 percent last week, despite the fact that mprq than 120,000 children fn critical disease areas have been inoculated with gamma globulin. However, the figures represented no clear-cut failure of the serum to provide temporary protec . tion from the disease, since jnuch of the increase came among unprotected, children and the drug takes several days to become effective. : The U. S. public health service said in Washington Thursday that 1.262 new cases of infantile paralysis were reported last week, a little less than* in the same w,eek of 1952 but 33 percent more than In the week previous. * r'.- < • A total of 5,373 cases have now been reported for. the Burrent sease yeaE* which began about AprH 1. i Volunteers worked overtime in emergency clinics at Marquette, Mich., and Bristol, Va. Tenn., to ) give gg injections to children un- ) der 10. Smooth-working clinics in Marquette were expected to finish the task of inoculating some 10,000 1 children today ahead of schedule. In the border communities of Bris- 1 tol, about 7,000 had been treated, with 5,000 still to go. At Decatur, 81., scene of a gamma globulin program last week, a ' seven-year-old girt died of polio ntesw »• ram mm>

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Says Contrary Promises Made To Reds, Korea •| Statements Fail To Slow Pace Os Final Armistice Planning SEOUL, Korea, UP -4 Syngman Rhee said today assurances reported granted to the Communists will make it impossible for him to keep his pledges to abide by the Korean armistice. . The South Korean president accused the United States qf making certain promises to him and giving exactly thfe opposite pledges to Communist truce negotiators. If these contrary promises have been made, Rhee said, either he or the Communists will’ be left holding an “empty bag.” Rhee said, however, he would make every effort to abide by tha armistice, the signing of wiyich is believed to be only hours away, until he finds he must' use other tactics. ! "My desire Is strong not to follow a unilateral policy, if it can. . be Rhee sahL Rhee’s statements of'today and , Thursday failed to slow the pace! of officers making final armistice arrangements at Papmunjom. | Tlje pagoda-Shaped building In , which the armistice is expected to be signed has been completed, and the chief Swedish representative of the neutral nations armistice supervisory commission said his work: would start “before the end of Ju}y.” I / In addition to Sweden, thq. commission Is composed, of members from Switzerland, Poland, Czechoslovakia and India. Rhee, whose warning Wednesday that the Chinese Communists must get out of Korea six months after armistice day or South Korea wttl Stake action had touched off flew charges of United States by the Red radio, said was "worried” about the truce ’ situation. , He said assistant secretary of state Walter S. Robertson had granted him assurances that there would be a definite time limit on a postwar political conference efforts to unify Korea. lOn the other hand, Rhee said, the Communists claimed -that Lt. Gqn. William K. Harrison, the , chief U. N. negotator, had told the Reds there would be no time limit on the conference. “If ■ contrary are given at the same time to Korea and to our Communist enemies, one or the other must be left with an empty bag,” he said. Rhee said it was the; basis of these understandings with Robertson that had led to his promise to abide by the truce, v He said' he also -was awaiting, a reply from secretary of state* John Foster Dulles on his request k for clarification on the status of the, agreements he said had been reached in the talks with Robertson. Even though Rhee left hit position in doubt, South Korean government officials predicted the truce grould be signed Saturday. at Panmunjom who had been'promised “fair warnipg" said they had 4>ot been told when the truce would be signed. United Nations and Communist officers, at Panmunjom proceeded with their final. preparations for the armistice ceremony in the JTwrw T» atx) Sen. Von Eichhorn Is Rotary Speaker Sen. Von A z Elchorn, of Uniondale, joint state senator from Adams,* Wells and • Blackford counties, was the guest speaker at the weekly meeting of the Decatur Rotary club. ’ ) * The senator discussed briefly the events of the recent session of the Indiana general assembly Dr. Harry Hebble .was chairman of the program.